About

Harsh Mehta is a passionate software engineer with over 4 years of relevant experience in the industry. Currently working as a Software Engineer at Klaviyo, he is interested in areas that lie at the intersection of product, data, and design. Harsh has a strong background in building scalable, serverless APIs using Amazon API Gateway, Lambda, and DynamoDB, and securing them using Custom Authorizers. He has also implemented a decoupled audit trail system that tracks user activity and actions taken through the admin dashboard. Previously, Harsh worked as a Software Engineer at nlx, where he built a single-page frontend dashboard for customer administration, which saved 35% of time spent on administrative tasks. He also reduced deployment time of the dashboard by 65% by automating the infrastructure using CloudFormation and CodePipeline. Harsh has experience working with React.js, TypeScript, Node.js, AWS API Gateway, AWS Lambda, AWS CloudFormation, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodePipeline, AWS DynamoDB, and AWS Kinesis. In addition to his work experience, Harsh has a strong educational background. He holds a Master of Science degree in Business Analytics from Columbia University and Columbia Business School, where he also worked as a Graduate Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Programming in Python. He also holds a Bachelor of Technology degree in Information Technology from Nirma University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, and a Minor in Finance, General. Harsh has also cleared CFA Level II. Harsh's technical skills include Software Engineering, AWS, JavaScript, TypeScript, Frontend, Infra, NodeJS, ReactJS, Data Science, SQL, and Apache Hive. He is a highly motivated individual with a strong work ethic and a passion for learning. Harsh is always looking to expand his skill set and is open to new challenges and opportunities. Feel free to reach out to him at hsmehta1411 [at] gmail [dot] com.